Empedocles
Political writings (lost)
Traditional attribution
Political writings (lost)
Πολιτικοί (λόγοι)
Works or speeches of political content, with no known titles or fragments, perhaps linked to his activity as a democratic leader at Acragas and to the tradition, recorded by Aristotle, that made him the inventor of rhetoric.
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Authorship note
An unverifiable ancient attribution: Aristotle, according to Diogenes Laertius (VIII 57), says he wrote "tragedies and political works". There are no titles or fragments.
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Other works by Empedocles
- On Nature · 450
- Purifications · 445
- Strasbourg papyrus (fragments of On Nature, book I) · 90
- The Crossing of Xerxes (lost)
- Proem to Apollo (lost)
- Tragedies (disputed attribution)
- Medical Discourse (lost)
- Epigrams (doubtful attribution)
- The Sphere (spurious)
- Book of the Five Substances and other Arabic texts (spurious)
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres VIII 51–77 (Empédocles), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, Londres, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342); trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb, 1925 (Wikisource).
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